Improved washing-machine



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WILLrAM B. onEssEMAN, or WINONA, MINNESOTA.

Letters Patent No. V105,646, dated July 26, 1870.

IMPROVE!) WASmNG-NIACHINE.

The Schedule rean-edito these Letters Patent and making part of thel name.

To all whom, 'irma/11 concern.-

Be it known that I, WLLUAM B. GnEnsnMAN, of

Winona, in the county of Winona and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new. and useful Improve'ff ments in Washing-Machines and I do hereby declare that the following `is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying drawing making part cf this specification, and to the letters` of reference marked theie'omjlike letters indi catinglike parts wherever they occur.

To cnablepthers skilled iu the art to construct and use my invention, I will` proceed to describe it.

My invention relates to washing-machines, and consists in a novel construction-and` arrangement of its parts. so that they may operate in au efective and peculiar manner, andso that the 'operating or mechan ical ,devices may be inserted' or removed at pleasure.

In the drawing- Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section on the 1nexxo`fig.2; i

Figure 2 is a top plan view; and l Figures ande; are views of part-s detached.

-In constructing my machine, 1 make a. box or body,

A, ont of wood, or any suitable material, with its bottom shaped so as to form an obtuse angle in the `center, as shown in fig. 1.

- This box I mount on legs Bas shown in the same gnre, and .cover its bottom with zinch, so that all dirt may bc easily removed, and the interior kept perfect- Within the box A. I place a. shoe., d, provided with two smooth rollers, c, having an endless-apron, e, passing around them, and with two grooved rollers, b, arrangedas shown in ligs. l and 2.

This shoe d yis made of two side pieces, shaped as shown 4in iig. 1, and ofltwo end pieces,'as shown in tlg. 2, and Ais made of the proper size for lbeing easily ius'ertedcn removed from the box A.

y In the sides of the box A, I cut vertical slot-s0, so asy to be directly opposite each other, and directly over the rollers l, when in the box, and in them I mount y the large roller A, as clearly shown in figs. 1 and 2,'

with `one of its journals projecting beyond the side of the box, and having connected thereto n crank, D, forl `turning it, as shown in'the same figures. i eliis large roller a may be grooved or not, as `des r To the sides ofthebox A, Ifasten rests or supports g,

as shown in Iig. 2, and in dotted lines in tig. 1, and

shaped-as clearly shown in iig. 4, so that, when at-v tached to the sides of the box,l there will be an oblong rectangular opening, in which I insert wooden springsf, so as to be directly over thejournals ot' the roller A, as clearly shown in lig. 2. 4

. These springs are provided with projections ,m m, for limitirtgthe tension of the same, as clearly shown in fig. 3.

1u the upper side of the rests g, I place set-screws '3, for the purpose of holding the springs f in place or adjusting them, and, when desired, for releasing,rl

them.

In operating my machine, I first pla'ce the shoe d, with its :rolle-rs b oan'd endless apron c, in position, and then, inlike manner, 'the rolleru.

This done, I insert the springs f and lock them in place by the set-screws-g; then pour in a sufcient quantity of the kind of water required, and the articles or fabrics to be washed, and operate the machine by meansot the crank D. K The endless apron c will carry the clothes or articles `between the rollers a and b, by which the dirt will be loosened and the articles washed.

As dii'erentthicknesses of the same articles, or different thicknesses made by two or more articles, pass between the rollers, the spring f allows lthe npperone to adjust itself,v to these varying or various thick,- nesses.

When the washing is over, b v simply releasing the set-screws i, the springs j may be removed, and the Y roller a and the shoe-d, wit-h its rollers b cand endless aprons, -be taken out, so that they can be dried, and` the interior of the machine thoroughly cleaned. I 'claim as my improrement- 'Ihev adj ustable springattached to the sides of the box A hy the supports g and set-screws i, constructed .as described, in cor'nbination with theroller a and removable frame d, provided with corrugated rollers l) b, smooth rollers c Ac, and endless apron e, in the manner and-for the purpose specified.

` l i WILLIAM B, OHEESEMAN.

Witnesses THOMAS SIMPSON, Gno. I, Winsor?. 

